Example sentences of "few [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very , very few of them may still be alive today , with their memories . |
| 2 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 3 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 4 | Until the trial , few of them would probably have read The Face . |
| 5 | There would again be an increase in the ability of a elements to overshadow c elements , but in addition the reduction of the number of c elements activated by A would mean that relatively few of them would be capable of acquiring associative strength in the first place . |
| 6 | But the corporation says that 5000 jobs could be created by the scheme , although few of them would be at the airport itself . |
| 7 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 8 | A few of them would have been a serious giveaway in any frontier search , but these she 'd covered over with postcard views bought from the Europiskaya Hotel . |
| 9 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'm here next season a few of them wo n't be . |
| 11 | This was a warning which , as Fergus Pyle reported , very few of them could have heard . |
| 12 | Through him the notion of the responsible use of power by a divinely ordained ruling class was introduced directly into the educational system , and boys were exposed systematically and en masse to an idea which only a few of them could have been counted on to pick up informally at home . |
| 13 | Few of them could be other than mere contrivances , devoid of any obvious unity and as arbitrary and controversial as those miscalled " natural communities " that have been proposed for the operation of the STV . |
| 14 | In any case , few of them could share the enthusiasm of liberal politicians for such reforms as the establishment of free trade unions . |
| 15 | But few of them can be done in isolation and all require some element of partnership . |
| 16 | A few of them can afford to rely upon a single organization to offer them work throughout the year . |
| 17 | What baffles me is how few of them can spell . |
| 18 | And it 's a fair bet that not a few of them will rouse hoots of laughter or gasps of admiration when you show them off to you friends . |
| 19 | If you do n't cheat , very few of you will be able to answer that question correctly . |
| 20 | The reality is that few of you will be as fortunate . |
| 21 | Very few of you will be starting from scratch to implement your computerised personnel information system . |
| 22 | Many of you will remember Her Majesty the Queen 's visit in 1984 when she opened the Queen 's Library at Sighthill , and perhaps a few of you will recall the Duke of Edinburgh 's visit in 1965 . |
| 23 | Few of us would want cream distemper with rough and ready dark graining — except perhaps in a listed building or outside privy . |
| 24 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 25 | Few of us would fail to realise that adulthood is not a matter of years but of sexual development . |
| 26 | Few of us would be happy with a bank whose statements read ‘ Your account is in credit but will not remain so for much longer . ’ |
| 27 | If we assume no tax being paid on earnings , but paid instead on spending , few of us would object to VAT on general goods being increased . |
| 28 | Few of us would be surprised to find an interviewer on our doorstep asking us to give a few moments of our time " to answer one or two questions " on our voting habits , which TV programmes we watch or which washing powder we use . |
| 29 | Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening . |
| 30 | My father and a few of us would would take the tractor and stuff . |